Abraham Reyes

Abraham Reyes (1884-1919) was a peasant revolutionary who was the leader of the Mexican Revolution of 1911. He overthrew the corrupt dictatorship of Ignacio Sanchez but proved no better and made an alliance with the Hapsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire in an attempt to connect the Eastern and Western worlds. He also dreamed of making Mexico a global power and getting more involved in international politics.

Biography
Reyes was the son of a nobleman and born in a village on the outskirts of the capital city of Mexico. He was educated both in Mexico and Europe, and was expelled from a Swiss school for an incident involving a handmaiden. When he returned home to Mexico he started having ideas of social reform and in 1911 united the peasants in rebellion against General Ignacio Sanchez's dictatorship. Reyes was a womanizer, claiming that it was his duty to the land to give noble blood to the women of Mexico, but was still an inspiring figure and had over 100 corridos (songs, ballads, and poems) written about his feats.

Abraham Reyes was called the "father of the people" and nicknamed "Father Abraham", and escaped captivity twice to return to leading his Rebeldes from Agave Viejo. In a series of guerrilla ambushes he isolated garrisons and overran them. When he captured Escalera from Colonel Agustin Allende and killed the Colonel/Governor, he began his ride on Mexico City.

Mexico City and El Matadero were the last two strongholds of the Mexican government, and Reyes used propaganda warfare to take Mexico. He promised greater pay to the Mexican Army, gaining the allegiance of a cavalry division in the city, turning the tide of battle and causing the collapse of the city's defenses as many units defected. Sanchez fled for France and Reyes became President of Mexico.

He still faced several issues such as fulfilling his promises, as well as other revolutionaries such as Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Madero, and Victoriano Huerta, as well as the El Matadero and Nosalida Sanchez loyalists nominally under the command of leaders Arsenio Baldizon and Jose Rodriguez. Reyes became a dictator and was no better than Sanchez, ordering soldiers to shoot at a protesting crowd, and he also made alliances with Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire in an attempt to bring the Eastern and Western Worlds closer together.

He was eventually defeated by his rivals, and he was riddled by bullets after his defeat.